I am extremely honored and Blessed to say that I received The 2008 Alpert/Hedgebrook Residency Prize!
Hedgebrook is on Whidbey Island, about thirty-five miles northwest of Seattle. Situated on 48-acres of forest and meadow facing Puget Sound, the retreat hosts women writers from all over the world for residencies of two weeks to two months, at no cost to the writer.
More about Hedgebrook
Initiated and funded by The Herb Alpert Foundation and administered by California Institute of the Arts, the Award rewards experimenters who are challenging and transforming art and society.
CONGRATULATIONS TO Lisa D’Amour on winning The 2008 Alpert Award In Theatre! READ ABOUT THIS YEAR’S ALPERT WINNERS…
Life is Great/sho nuff-indeed…
I’m in NYC/hanging out in Harlem wid baddass Helga Davis
Check out Helga’s Show on WNYC
I’ll be here till 9/1/08 developing delta dandi, hangn wid my Loved Ones and participating in the events below…holla…
Fire & Ink Presents!
8 p.m. Thursday, June 12, 2008
Hilton Newark Gateway Hotel
1 Gateway Center, Newark, NJ
Artist Line up and MORE
delta dandi STAGED READING & Talk Back
Freedom Train Productions, NYC
August 6 & 7 2008, 7PM
At The Audre Lorde Project
MORE
After The Ballot: A Night of Theatre
Nightingale Lounge
213 Second Avenue @ 13th Street
Benefiting Freedom Train Productions
Thursday, Juneteenth*, 6/19 @ 8pm
MORE
Holla at yo gurl on the road/and please tell your friends!
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Virginia Grise received a 2008 Kennedy Center Award! AND Through the Kennedy Center,
she was also given a 2 week writing residency at the O’Neill Playwrights’ Conference in Connecticut in July.
Virginia is getting her MFA in Writing For Performance from Cal Arts.
I am very proud to say that she is one of my baybays/I first worked with her in 1998.
ROCK ON la Vicki…
Before taking off from Austin, TX for a series of moves and adventures
I had the Blessed Opportunity to present
One For The Road: A Poetic Jam Session
May 12, 2008 7PM At
Resistencia Bookstore
Casa de Red Salmon Arts
1801-A South First St. | Austin, TX 78704
512.416-8885
Featuring: Lidia Marte, Samiya Bashir, Shia Shabazz
and an Open Mic Jam
Lidia Marte read from her newly published book, El Reino de la Imagen: Memoria, Comida y Representacion
(2008 Isla Negra Editores, San Juan-Santo Domingo).
Portions of this event were broadcast on 91.7 FM KOOP Radio’s (Austin, TX) People United hosted by Alan Campbell
RedBone Press author, Samiya Bashir read from the Queer Codex: ROOTED! Anthology Edited by Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano, Published by Evelyn Street Press & allgo and from her book of poetry Where The Apple Falls.
Shia Shabazz read from her newly published chapbook
Momentary: Poems by Shia Shabazz
Then we had an open mic par’tay…
More about Lidia Marte’s book…
(this book is an Afro-Caribbean stew of the
author’s external and internal migrant journeys)
El Reino de la Imagen es un sancocho (sopa)
poético/político de una memoria proletaria y
emigrante al romper del siglo 21.
Ensayo visual, etnografia tercermundista,
vomito existencial?
Más allá de las posibles etiquetas, este
libro propone la validez testimonial de nuestra
experiencia cotidiana e históricamente específica.
More about Samiya Bashir
More about Queer Codex: ROOTED…
QUEER CODEX: ROOTED! Features poetry, short stories and visual art from 11 queer women and trans-identified artists, Queer Codex: ROOTED! is inspired by Sharon Bridgforth’s artist residency as part of allgo’s 2007-2008 Cultural Arts Season: Envisioned & Created Space(s). Queer Codex: ROOTED! contributes to a growing body of literature and visual art by queer women and trans-identified artists of color, of Jewish descent, activists, scholars and cultural workers. Contributors: Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Sharon Bridgforth, Senalka McDonald, Samiya Bashir, Matt U. Richardson, María Limón, Jennifer Margulies, Cheryl Coward, Anel I. Flores, Ana-Maurine Lara, Adelina Anthony.
More about Shia Shabazz’s book…
Momentary features poems presented in Shia’s recent interdisplinary performance, produced by The Center for African and African American Studies, UT Austin, directed by Florinda Bryant. Momentary explores epiphany,and inspired moments that propel activism, inspire art/love/living and inform who we are/who we become. Shia is a Cave Canem Fellow and a member of The Austin Project.
ALL THREE BOOKS are for sale at RESISTENCIA BOOKSTORE
I am honored and Blessed to say that I was a reader/speaker in Cherrie Moraga’s
Indigenous Identity in Diaspora 2008 Spring Quarter speaker and performance series.
The series is sponsored by Cherríe Moraga and The Insitute for Diversity in the Arts. The series accompanies Cherríe’s course on Indigenous Identity in Diaspora – People of Color Art Practice in North América, which will be offered through IDA, DRAMA, CSRE, and is a Feminist Studies cognate course.
I had such a GREAT time! I got to do many wonderful things/like….Talking/hanging/Working with my She’ro Cherrie…Meeting/spending time with visionary artists, students and professors…Like eating at my favorite Ethiopian restaurants/Being housed at the beautiful BeeHive (Dawn and Vini’s home)…I got to see an excerpt of E. Patrick Johnson’s newest work: Sweet Tea
Life is good/yeah sho nuff indeed!
Dr. Joni Jones/Omi Osun Olomo performed in The love conjure/blues Text Installation at
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY’s Black and Latino Queer Performance Festival
Coordinated by E. Patrick Johnson and Ramon Rivera-Servera
An anthology is in the making/that will contain performance texts, interviews and scholarly writings from the festival.
While in Chicago I was able to visit K. Bradford’s class at Columbia College. I’ve known K. a long time/am so proud to see her doing her thang-that she is teaching my book!
The Austin Project presented it’s annual jam session series April 2008 at
Women & Their Work and The Mexican American Cultural Center .
Produced by Dr. Joni L. Jones/Omi Osun Olomo through The Center for African and African American Studies, University of Texas Austin The Austin Project (TAP) brings a group of women scholars, artists and activists of color and our allies together for a 10 week process. We meet for 4 hours on Sundays. At the end of the process the group shares their work in a public presentation. I am the Anchor Artist for The Austin Project. Each year The Austin Project brings guest artists in to do a workshop and present a work in-progress. Guest artists include luminaries such as: Laurie Carlos, Robbie McCauley, Daniel Alexander Jones, Carl Hancock Rux, Sheree Ross and Helga Davis. Plus Dr. Jones offers yoga, movement and Theatre of The Oppressed based exercises to the group.
For More about TAP Click HERE
Florinda Bryant and I performed The love conjure/blues Text Installation at the South Dallas Cultural Center March 2008. Our Vicki, Harold, Q and the rest of our peeps there were wonderfully supportive and so much fun!
I will soon be featured on dallas based film maker Q Ragsdale’s web show Say What!
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